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Contents 1 The Dark Side 1.1 Anakin 1.2 Empire 2 The Cost 2.1 US GDP 2.2 Research Budget 2.3 How Much is a Mouse Worth? 3 Open Access Initiatives 3.1 Sum of Human Knowledge 3.1.1 Scan This Book 3.2 Supporters 3.3 PLoS 3.4 Insight Journal 3.5 BioMed Central 3.6 Budapest Initiative 3.7 OSA Interactive Scientific Publications 3.8 NIH Public Access Mandate 3.9 Future of Publishing 3.10 Peter Suber

The Dark Side

Anakin

• Steamboat Willie (1928)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Empire

• Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1976)
• http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/fedderse/ftp/other/Disney.htm

The Cost

US GDP

• http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:USA&q=us+gdp

Research Budget

• http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy2010/
• http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/presentations/aaasrd20091030.pdf

How Much is a Mouse Worth?

• http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DIS&fstype=ii

Open Access Initiatives

Sum of Human Knowledge

Scan This Book

• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html
• http://www.kk.org/writings/scan_this_book.php

Supporters

• Patient Advocates
  • http://vimeo.com/1899536
• School Teachers
  • http://vimeo.com/1829969
• Welcome Trust
  • http://vimeo.com/1865535
• Benefits of Open Access
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2JT23E1bRE

PLoS

• http://www.plos.org

Insight Journal

• http://www.insight-journal.org/

BioMed Central

• http://www.biomedcentral.com/
• Acquired by Springer

Budapest Initiative

• http://www.soros.org/openaccess

OSA Interactive Scientific Publications

• http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/isp.cfm
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00k9EqPRUv8

NIH Public Access Mandate

• http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

Future of Publishing

• http://www.plosone.org/enhanced/pone.0006975/

Peter Suber

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tStVPr0PSEQ&feature=related

Peter Suber of SPARC speaks at a Berkman Center for Internet and Society talk on the future of open access in scholarly publications and research.